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Not using the geometric product is sort of like working as a chef but not allowing yourself any knives with blades between 3 inches – 15 inches long. Only a par
by jacobolus 8y ago
Not using the geometric product is sort of like working as a chef but not allowing yourself any knives with blades between 3 inches – 15 inches long. Only a paring knife, a hatchet, and a machete. Yes, it is possible to accomplish everything you wanted using a confusing mishmash of other abstractions (the raw numerical data turns out basically the same), but it’s really really inconvenient in comparison.
> it has no geometric interpretation
This is ridiculous. The geometric product is thoroughly “geometrical”.
A more accurate translation of your sentence is “I ajkjk have not personally thought enough about it to visualize a multivector”.
- ajkjk 8y agoI have no problem visualizing multivectors, and have studied them extensively. What I have failed to find any intuition for is the general geometric product of two multivectors (without restricting to a particular grade). If you have one, I would love to hear it.